10 Best Video Game Characters Of The New Generation
2. Adéwalé - Assassins Creed: Freedom Cry
Surprisingly, even though the AC series is known for humongous, expansive worlds that stretch off into the distance and beyond, reducing it all down and giving us a character that had emotional ties to the events in-game, along with a tighter set of story missions and a feeling that you were making a difference in the world has provided one of the best games in the franchise.
Playing a Black Flag protagonist Edward Kenway's second-in-command Adéwalé, he's a far more educated and methodical man that that of the who's gone before, and as such with the added element of his race in the game it opened Ubisoft up to letting you take part in one of the most controversial subject matters rarely seen in gaming: Slavery.
Following an opening on-ship mission where we get a feeling for how far he has come since his days alongside Kenway, the crew is suddenly shipwrecked, forcing you into action due to a fleeing woman desperately in need of some assistance. From there on out he has a score to settle with the slave-traders of Port-au-Prince, being that our machete-wielding hero shared a similar origin, immediately giving you an extremely strong sense of drive that the previous games could never achieve, short of Ezio's revenge plight in AC II.
There's a fantastic voice performances from Tristin D. Lalla as Adewale and one hell of a final mission where he finally buries his blade into the stomach of a particularly notorious trader before delivering one of the most satisfying final few lines there's been in any of the recent games.